Le Quesnoy (QNY1): Ypresian, France
collected 1997 1998

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Arfia gingerichi Smith and Smith 2001
MNHN QNY1-1338
Mammalia
Vassacyon taxidiotis Solé et al. 2013
Solé et al. 2013
MNHN QNY1-397
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Chowliia europea n. sp. Bronnert et al. 2019
Bronnert et al. 2019
MNHN QNY1-304 - type
see common names

Geography
Country:France State/province:Oise
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 2.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.8° North, 0.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: MP7
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: a succession of lenticular bodies showing two main facies: 1) clayey sands rich in frequently pyritised lignite, together with amber; 2) grey clayey sands with less lignite (1 to 12 % of the sediment), with continental vertebrate fauna. These facies, the rarity of mollusc shells and charophytes, probably due to decarbonatation and the presence of pyrrhotite (FeS4), reflect a hypoxic environment.
Environment:fine channel fill
Geology comments: Strata deposited at bottom of two channels cutting into underlying Thanetian marine green sands. The channels prograde toward the northeast and were discovered under Oise River Quaternary deposits.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collection dates:1997 and 1998
Metadata
Database number:182643
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2016-11-16 09:18:30 Last modified:2016-11-16 10:10:10
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-16 09:18:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60840. F. Solé, E. Gheerbrant, and M. Godinot. 2013. Sinopaninae and Arfianinae (Hyaenodontida, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene of Europe and Asia; evidence for dispersal in Laurasia around the Paleocene/Eocene boundary and for an unnoticed faunal turnover in Europe. Geobios 46:313-327 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

68346 C. Bronnert, E. Gheerbrant, M. Godinot and G. Métais. 2019. First European ‘Isectolophidae’ (Mammalia, Perissodactyla): Chowliia europea, sp. nov., from the lower Eocene of Le Quesnoy, France. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38(4):e1487448:1-9 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
60847 F. Solé, E. Gheerbrant, and M. Godinot. 2013. The “miacids” (Carnivoraformes, Mammalia) from the Early Eocene locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, France); first occurrence of Vassacyon in Europe. Comptes Rendus Palevol 12:191-202 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]